JUNE, 123 



former days called the Byzantium lily, and 

 ■which grows from the Adiiatic to the Levant. 

 It is commonly called Turk's cap, or turn again 

 gentlemen, and is the Lilium chalcedonicum of 

 botanists. This species of lily is in flower 

 during this month in our gardens, and as it is 

 in bloom at the season when oiu' Saviour spoke 

 his sermon on the mount, Dr. Eoyle concludes 

 that this is most probably the lily of the field, 

 of which the disciples were to learn a lesson of 

 faith, and this invests this flower with fresh in- 

 terest. The common white lily has been planted 

 from time immemorial in the English gardens, 

 and its mucilaginous roots boiled in milk form 

 an old remedy for wounds. 



As long since as the days of Dioscorides, the 

 martagon hly has been kno\vn as a flower of 

 Asia, and he mentions its having been found at 

 Antioch, in Syria. The Hly of the Old Testa- 

 ment has shared with the lily of the field, in 

 having a variety of flowers assigned as the lily 

 intended by the Hebrew name Shushan. The 

 violet, the rose, t'he jasmine, and many other 

 sweet flowers of the Holy Land, have been said 

 to be the lily. Whatever it may have been, it 

 was doubtless a flower much esteemed in the 

 east. 



The sweet flowers of the white and purple 

 stocks are fragrant now. The old favourite red 

 or carmine stock, called queen's stock, (3Iathi- 

 ola incand) is called by the French girojlee des 

 jardi/is ; by the old writers, purple gilliflower. 

 Its rosettes are sometimes of a pale pink, or 



